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Show page HILL TOP TIMES 14 February 27, 1976 ffiMifjnifii with you on that campaign and now you're reading a letter from a Dr. Binney which says that orderly is a woman. Binney says he discovered her true sex during an examination at his hospital. Imagine the shock! Your masquerade has been exposed. Once again you're Deborah Sampson, not Robert Shurtleff as you've been calling yourself for 18 months of fighting alongside men in the (Condensed from an article Havach.) by Capt. Lynn Revolutionary War. It's November 1783, you're being mustered out of the Army and General Paterson has brought you to West Point where, dressed as a woman, you walk up and down the ranks of your fighting companions. Bland stares greet you. Not a single compatriot recognizes you. Imagine the shock! you discover feminine breasts. This Revolutionary War soldier is a girl. Imagine the shock! YOU'RE A DOCTTOR standing amid suffering soldiers in a Philadelphia hospital in 1783. You examine mechanically, so immune to pain that nothing surprises you; until you undress a recent admission. Upon g chest bandage, removing a You're General John Paterson, it's late summer 1783, and you've just led a campaign across the Alleghenies into Ohio. A newly appointed orderly was tight-fittin- .v.v .v.v .v.v 05 1 55 - fWrVr .v.v JV.V v.v .V.V v.v m m .v.v ;.;.y v.v I i m m v.v v.v m m m Ill . IS II I m 5 )is r: o i r a: 1 1 nn LTU rf w.-.- v v:vVX.v.;.v.v.;.v.v.v llfc fi p |